@close2uHey man, Yeah I'm pretty lucky at the moment, having alot of time to practice. But i also make time and sacrifice alot for it. It's only for the last 4-5 weeks I began to practice this much after a realisation that I could actually get good at this and I just started to enjoy even the most boring practice drills, like scales..=) haha..

Right now my 5 songs is gonna stay 5 songs for quite a while, atleast 2-3 months more I think.. Because I choose some pretty difficult ones, and i've been working on them for quite a while and it's really hard for me to give up on them. I maybe should have picked some easier ones. After I learn these songs I think I will be able to learn lots of songs faster and easier since these contain a lot of difficult techniques (atleast for me). Then i'll try to group them more 1 really hard, 1 hard 1 .... etc.. Fingerstyle, rock, blues, solo etc..

Thanks for responding.. Hope you get lucky soon and can practice as much as you would like too..!

Sorry to bump this old thread but there's a couple of things about this schedule I'd like to clarify.

First time I noticed it was when De_Conne drop the link in another thread last week. Having had a look at it I thought, ok looks like I need to rewrite my practice schedule, as I'm IM2 going on 3 at the moment.

However, having looked at this schedule, I then went back to the IM stages and thought hang on a minute, all the stages have their own goals and practice lesson, with a schedule for that stage ?

So my question is should I be morphing the existing stage schedules to match this one or is this more applicable to players who have finished the IM ie Intermediate Players?

Thanks Shadow that makes perfect sense but I guess this schedule is more for post IM for maintaining or learning new techniques. I notice that the Blues and Folk Courses don't have specific stages or schedules, so this would be a useful structure for working through those modules I guess..............which I plan to do next.

Eventually I'm going to start the Blues Lead course, and some of these items will go away from daily practice in favor of focusing on the blues techniques. My assumption is I will always need to practice #1, #2, and #3 - if these aren't practiced then the ability to perform them will diminish quickly.

2. Scales with metronome - major, major and minor Pentatonic, blues and hybrid.

Looks good - although for No 2 I would focus on one at a time and not only metronome it but use it to make music.It's all well and good being able to go up and down in time.Can you make music with the scale?

Looks good - although for No 2 I would focus on one at a time and not only metronome it but use it to make music.It's all well and good being able to go up and down in time.Can you make music with the scale?

You're right about scales vs music. I did include #5, which is about improv.